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they thought they had a majority view, that everybody dislikes and hates barack obama, everyone thinks he's a socialist, right. >> if we get that message out there on tv, let the world see that he's a kenyan socialist, they'll agree with us, right? when you broke the glass, they're getting their first sort of breath of real air and seeing the rest of the world for the first time you see a sense of disbelief. i think it was easy to get people like sheldon adelson to give up money because they were in that terrarium. >> let's be clear, too this is an exercise in ego for a lot of the guys, right. >>> i have all of this money, i'm going to change the dynamics of the race. look at success rate of the top super pacs. it's bad. the folks with the highest success rate are freedom works, 24.5% success rate. the seiu, actually, doesn't make it to the top spenders but had an 85% success rate because what do they do? they focused on getting out the vote and organizational ground game. >> ground, ground. >> look at the up ins and it's astonishing and i'm reminded of the moment on fox news and elect
they thought they had a majority view, that everybody dislikes and hates barack obama, everyone thinks he's a socialist, right. >> if we get that message out there on tv, let the world see that he's a kenyan socialist, they'll agree with us, right? when you broke the glass, they're getting their first sort of breath of real air and seeing the rest of the world for the first time you see a sense of disbelief. i think it was easy to get people like sheldon adelson to give up money because...
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why do you want to re-elect barack obama if they couldn't work across the aisle for four years. suddenly that talking point that argument gets stopped in its tracks by the pictures of barack obama and governor christie. and on top of that, you have him in the speech, just now, in wisconsin, going back to what is always the most effective touch stone of barack obama's rhetoric, in a moment like this, there are no republicans or democrats. it's like there is no red america, no blue america. we are all americans today. they were powerful in 2004, in 2008. to come back home to that in the closing days of the campaign is very powerful for undecided voters. >> fire the guy who is saying that. >> he also said something in there, he said you know me by now. you may not have liked everything i did in the first four years but you know who i am which is a backhanded -- i won't say compliment -- a suggestion that mitt romney is a mysterious, unknown, intangible plu plutocrat with horses that dance and he's not someone that anyone knows and should not be trusted. >> to your point we come bac
why do you want to re-elect barack obama if they couldn't work across the aisle for four years. suddenly that talking point that argument gets stopped in its tracks by the pictures of barack obama and governor christie. and on top of that, you have him in the speech, just now, in wisconsin, going back to what is always the most effective touch stone of barack obama's rhetoric, in a moment like this, there are no republicans or democrats. it's like there is no red america, no blue america. we...
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. >>> if you can't beat barack obama with this record, then shut down the party. shut it down. start new with new people because this is a gimme election. >> if the republican party cannot win in this environment it has to get out of politics. >> i think this victory will set off a civil war inside the republican party. there's going to be a lot of soul searching. this was a winnable election. the president was vulnerable. >> this was not alabama versus lsu. this was alabama versus ball state. i mean, wisconsin went early, michigan went early, pennsylvania went early. i mean, i -- as a republican, i cannot believe we lost virginia again. >> once upon a time, conservatives licked their chops at the prospect of taking on an incumbent in a down economy but that exuberance was finally dashed on tuesday night. now comes the wreckening, a struggle within the gop to figure out what happened. was it the candidate, was it the message, was it the country? quote, there will be some kind of war predicted mike murphy a long-time republican party consultant suggesting it would pit mathematic
. >>> if you can't beat barack obama with this record, then shut down the party. shut it down. start new with new people because this is a gimme election. >> if the republican party cannot win in this environment it has to get out of politics. >> i think this victory will set off a civil war inside the republican party. there's going to be a lot of soul searching. this was a winnable election. the president was vulnerable. >> this was not alabama versus lsu. this was...
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. >>> does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also re-elected the house republicans. whether people intended or not, we've got divided government. >> you don't think there's a mandate here? >> i don't. because then they would have put nancy pelosi in charge of the house of representatives. see, i think these ideas that we talked about, i think they're popular ideas. this is a very close election. >> despite a scoreboard of 332 to 206, congressman paul ryan refuses to admit that president obama might have a mandate to push his agenda, a big part of which includes raising taxes on high earners. this week the president is holding court with ally and opponents to discuss the upcoming fiscal cliff. yesterday, at a meeting with progressive leaders the president said he would not give in to republican demands to extend all of the bush tax cuts. today he will meet with business leaders. the discussions underscore the president's opposing constituencies, but according to new york magazine's jonathan chaits
. >>> does barack obama now have a mandate? >> i don't think so because they also re-elected the house republicans. whether people intended or not, we've got divided government. >> you don't think there's a mandate here? >> i don't. because then they would have put nancy pelosi in charge of the house of representatives. see, i think these ideas that we talked about, i think they're popular ideas. this is a very close election. >> despite a scoreboard of 332 to...
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i served with barack obama in the senate. he has friends across the aisle, he reaches across the aisle, but when you have a majority leader named mitch mcconnell who said his highest priority is seeing this man become a one-term president, i don't know what they expect barack obama to do. he cannot wave a magic wand if that's the attitude. and the other thing is, mitt romney doesn't tell people which i'm going to tell them with your permission, that -- >> please go ahead. >> thank you. there were more private sector jobs created under barack obama in the last three months new private sector jobs than george w. bush over eight years. we were bleeding 800,000 jobs a month when our president took the oath. the deficits were soaring and he had two wars on the credit card, osama bin laden was running loose, detroit was about to go under. mitt romney said let detroit go bankrupt. he didn't think it was a big deal to focus attention on osama bin laden. he wouldn't have gone into pakistan to get him. i mean, when you listen to mitt r
i served with barack obama in the senate. he has friends across the aisle, he reaches across the aisle, but when you have a majority leader named mitch mcconnell who said his highest priority is seeing this man become a one-term president, i don't know what they expect barack obama to do. he cannot wave a magic wand if that's the attitude. and the other thing is, mitt romney doesn't tell people which i'm going to tell them with your permission, that -- >> please go ahead. >> thank...
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four years ago we sat here barack obama had had an even more transcendent victory than the one he had last night, and we were all predicting that there would be a huge essentially never happened. >> you know and independent of the sort of of the gop, john, the exbe it polling on the actual policy i thought was staggering. for the economy, 53% of voters said george w. bush 38% saighout the year, throughout the last two years, to tie the american economy, didn't seem to work. and then again on the people this thing, ily matters and i've always said i don'tnk americans pull the lever for someone they don't like exit pulling onike you, president obama got 53%, mitt romney got 43%. >> yeah. it's interesting, you know be certainly the obama team always thought that when they looked at their research which they did copiously all the time and really aggressively was that the understanding in the electorate of how deep the hole was that the president inherited was much more profound than we gave people credit for and that people, when they went out and focus groups people were not blaming geor
four years ago we sat here barack obama had had an even more transcendent victory than the one he had last night, and we were all predicting that there would be a huge essentially never happened. >> you know and independent of the sort of of the gop, john, the exbe it polling on the actual policy i thought was staggering. for the economy, 53% of voters said george w. bush 38% saighout the year, throughout the last two years, to tie the american economy, didn't seem to work. and then again...
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philadelphia gave barack obama a 478,000 margin last time. >> wow. >> that's a firewall. if we approach that in any way, alex, no way he loses the state. looks good. >> that both explains why romney maybe wasn't trying to put it into play earlier and also given where it is ons the electoral map and the narrow road to 270, may be trying to make a last-ditch effort today. we will be asking you more questions about the state i'm sure tomorrow and in the days to follow. thank you as always to our own governor who never needs to run for re-election. he has a permanent seat here on "now." governor ed rendell. >> the pay isn't so hot. >> we're working on it. you're a public employee. >> to give you an indication of how intense today is, here is the scene in cleveland just moments ago. the romney plane shared the tarmac with air force 2 while governor ryan and paul ryan hold their first campaign event of the day, vice president joe biden is making a previously scheduled stop. more from democracy plaza after this. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ [ girl ] hey! [ both laugh ] ♪ woman: what do
philadelphia gave barack obama a 478,000 margin last time. >> wow. >> that's a firewall. if we approach that in any way, alex, no way he loses the state. looks good. >> that both explains why romney maybe wasn't trying to put it into play earlier and also given where it is ons the electoral map and the narrow road to 270, may be trying to make a last-ditch effort today. we will be asking you more questions about the state i'm sure tomorrow and in the days to follow. thank you...
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what i mean is, i really don't believe endorsements, "new york times" endorsed barack obama, i don't think that people are waking up in the morning reading that and going now i'm going to vote. but i do think -- >> given -- >> wait. but just to finish the point i don't think a british policy journal, however influential in the media will move people in ohio. what i think happens is, the endorsement is -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> i think the endorsement does excite people who were leaning and so the best one that mitt romney has is in colorado got john elway, a big famous football quarterback. i don't think that moves people in colorado who hadn't made up their minds but people who heard about it, gets them excited. that's what happens at this point today. >> i would say i think the bloomberg endorsement may have an extra effect because it comes after the christie imagery and in the closing phase, mitt romney was very much plugging the i'm going to go there and be able to be bipartisan in a way that barack obama hasn't been and he's doing this on a week you have chris christie hugging him
what i mean is, i really don't believe endorsements, "new york times" endorsed barack obama, i don't think that people are waking up in the morning reading that and going now i'm going to vote. but i do think -- >> given -- >> wait. but just to finish the point i don't think a british policy journal, however influential in the media will move people in ohio. what i think happens is, the endorsement is -- >> [ inaudible ]. >> i think the endorsement does excite...
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your magazine had a very powerful i thought endorsement of barack obama and did a masterful assessment of romney and his weaknesses. do you think that is true? >>. >> we've got two different reports now on how romney -- on the one hand he's depressed and other hand he's up. we don't know. let me second the point about voting. voting is the sacrament of our democracy and that's why i vote. because i'm a new yorker so everybody knows which way new york is going, but i just persistently and stubbornly vote every time because it's like the altar of democracy. >> do you think the fact that this is tight is going to be -- to chris's point we don't know what's going to happen until it happens. do you think the tightness of this race will encourage people to go out there and vote. >> i think it already has frankly. a lot of the reports if you talk to the obama campaign that we've been hearing is all of the suppressive efforts have actually made people angry and actually made people more motivated to go and stand in line. i mean this weekend, eight hours, nine hours, people standing in line thi
your magazine had a very powerful i thought endorsement of barack obama and did a masterful assessment of romney and his weaknesses. do you think that is true? >>. >> we've got two different reports now on how romney -- on the one hand he's depressed and other hand he's up. we don't know. let me second the point about voting. voting is the sacrament of our democracy and that's why i vote. because i'm a new yorker so everybody knows which way new york is going, but i just...
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we showed barack obama saying of course you want to kill terrorists but if you don't have a process to make sure you've got the right guy, you could get the wrong guy. it was so powerful to hear senator obama say you might get barack the bomb thrower about how targeting works. let's play what john brennan says about how this program works and why it's good. >> with the unprecedented ability of remotely piloted aircraft to precisely target a military objective while minimizing collateral damage, one could argue that never before has there been a weapon that allows us to distinguish more effectively between an al qaeda terrorist and innocent civilians. >> that is the defense of the obama administration today. in essence that this program is so targeted it saves civilian lives. what do you say to that in your case? >> well, i think it's very hard to assess that kind of claim without more information. information that the administration refuses to release. it's very easy for administration officials to make claims like this when there's no possibility that they're going to be held to accou
we showed barack obama saying of course you want to kill terrorists but if you don't have a process to make sure you've got the right guy, you could get the wrong guy. it was so powerful to hear senator obama say you might get barack the bomb thrower about how targeting works. let's play what john brennan says about how this program works and why it's good. >> with the unprecedented ability of remotely piloted aircraft to precisely target a military objective while minimizing collateral...
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obama. i don't think there's anything that's come out that's going to derail him on the if is call cliff -- fiscal cliff. >> he has a strong hand in the fiscal cliff but at this point to the average voter doesn't reflect on him. >> i don't think the white house has things to be worried about other than it's a headache and takes them off question. there is a morals and values question. richard cohen and "the washington post" today says get petraeus back to work. i will read an excerpt. >> i mean, there it is. besides who shot jr, we don't know what is going on and beyond that, it is interesting, you know, i don't know what the politics are in terms of left/right, conservative versus liberal or democrat versus republican. it does seem to me that a the lot of the people who are more conservative in this line of work, have big scandals, join us on the flawed sinful side over here. we know our limitations. as clint eastwood said, to quote a guy now speaking to a full chair, a man has to know his
obama. i don't think there's anything that's come out that's going to derail him on the if is call cliff -- fiscal cliff. >> he has a strong hand in the fiscal cliff but at this point to the average voter doesn't reflect on him. >> i don't think the white house has things to be worried about other than it's a headache and takes them off question. there is a morals and values question. richard cohen and "the washington post" today says get petraeus back to work. i will read...
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obama right before the election wanted to cover up -- well something. i don't know what they're trying to cover up. but he didn't want it to be an act of terror. if he had said this is an act of terrorism, probably would go shooting up in the polls at the time. so there's no sense -- >> he did say it was -- >> there's no point, no sense to their charge of a cover-up. but saying that the state department security office screwed up, doesn't get you at the white house, doesn't get the president or susan rice or anybody else of a high position in the line of fire. which is what they want. so this is again and again they're trying to suggest that something is wrong, said what the cia told her and it is i think as richard said, kind of an immature exercise and the common ritual you go up to capitol hill after weeks of this and they come out and say we kind of sorted this out, still have other questions, but their appearance, if they don't back up their troubles, the fact that they're troubled by this with some details, it just shows you they're not for real.
obama right before the election wanted to cover up -- well something. i don't know what they're trying to cover up. but he didn't want it to be an act of terror. if he had said this is an act of terrorism, probably would go shooting up in the polls at the time. so there's no sense -- >> he did say it was -- >> there's no point, no sense to their charge of a cover-up. but saying that the state department security office screwed up, doesn't get you at the white house, doesn't get the...
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obama? speaking of who, president obama is about to make another power play returning to the campaign trail, about to speak to factory workers pennsylvania to sell his positions on taxes and a fiscal cliff deal. >> i also got a chance to meet some of the folks who have been working around the clock to keep up with the christmas rush and that's a good thing. these guys are santa's extra elves here. they manufacture almost 3,000 connect pieces every minute and every box that ends up on store shelves in 30 countries is stamped "made in america." that's something to be proud of [ applause ] by the way, i hope the camera folks had a chance to take a look at some of the kinex including that flag made out of kinex. joe biden was in costco, he wanted to buy some of this stuff but i told him he had too much work to do. i wasn't going to have him building roller coasters all day long. now, of course, santa delivers everywhere. i've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for washington. so you shoul
obama? speaking of who, president obama is about to make another power play returning to the campaign trail, about to speak to factory workers pennsylvania to sell his positions on taxes and a fiscal cliff deal. >> i also got a chance to meet some of the folks who have been working around the clock to keep up with the christmas rush and that's a good thing. these guys are santa's extra elves here. they manufacture almost 3,000 connect pieces every minute and every box that ends up on...
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. >> the person who gets it done now will be barack obama, a democratic president, not mitt romney. >> that's the problem. >> a person of color. let's be honest. only deepens the racial divides when you have that kind of language. >> marco rubio will be standing next to him when they sign that bill. >> you're right. this is something republicans could have had a lead hand in crafting and now they're going to look like they're playing catch-up. to karen's point, jay, when we talk about the trust deficit and how much americans think oh, the republicans have changed, everything's different now, this is haley barbour, i have to play this sound, this is haley barbour at the republican governors association conference in las vegas on wednesday. let's take a listen. >> we've got to give our political organizational activity, you know, a very serious -- proct togethology ex. we need to look everywhere is my point. >> seven-second pause and what he comes up with is a proctology exam. >> probably a good place to look. >> you know, i think it's kind of ironic that romney should be the instrument
. >> the person who gets it done now will be barack obama, a democratic president, not mitt romney. >> that's the problem. >> a person of color. let's be honest. only deepens the racial divides when you have that kind of language. >> marco rubio will be standing next to him when they sign that bill. >> you're right. this is something republicans could have had a lead hand in crafting and now they're going to look like they're playing catch-up. to karen's point,...
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obama, but do so with 332 electoral vo votes." so the problem wasn't too many ads or not enough ads. it was pouring money into a message that ultimately appeared to be out of sync with the majority of voters. joan, one of the problems here that people on the left and particularly in the blog sphere, which is more critical of the political class and more critical of some of the traditional media, the critique has been that republicans get to move the goal line, not only in negotiation, which might be good strategy, but in the factual underpinnings of our discussion. whether it's climate change where the science doesn't add up, or as we saw in the final couple of weeks of this debate, in the polling and math and the electoral votes and early votes and everything we could count showed an obama edge. but the republicans sort of did something tough to themselves. they really shocked and awed their own base, because they weren't ready for this. >> well, i think it's very interesting, because i go back to that interview, i think it was r
obama, but do so with 332 electoral vo votes." so the problem wasn't too many ads or not enough ads. it was pouring money into a message that ultimately appeared to be out of sync with the majority of voters. joan, one of the problems here that people on the left and particularly in the blog sphere, which is more critical of the political class and more critical of some of the traditional media, the critique has been that republicans get to move the goal line, not only in negotiation,...
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look at exit polling among gay, lesbian and bye sexual voters, barack obama won 70%, compared to mitt romney with 22%. >> surprised it was that low, actually. >> surprised there was anybody that voted for mitt romney. >> that's the point. >> that's an issue where there's going to have to be some substantive change and soon. >> what was interesting about the day after in the two-day after commentaries by every person on the right i read they all immediately including the "wall street journal," rupert murdoch were saying we've got to be less nativists, we've got to -- we can't lose the hispanics for generations after generation. and some of them act as though that's simple to do. again as with how do you write off evangelicals who care about abortion among all else, how do you write off after four, six, eight years of beating the drum against amnesty, that part of your base -- >> i think there are some paths forward. first of all a recognition that politically dem grapography is desti destiny. if you're republicans, as any party that becomes might norty or losing you have as political f
look at exit polling among gay, lesbian and bye sexual voters, barack obama won 70%, compared to mitt romney with 22%. >> surprised it was that low, actually. >> surprised there was anybody that voted for mitt romney. >> that's the point. >> that's an issue where there's going to have to be some substantive change and soon. >> what was interesting about the day after in the two-day after commentaries by every person on the right i read they all immediately...